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We present a multilevel stochastic gradient descent method for the optimal control of systems governed by partial differential equations under uncertain input data. The gradient descent method used to find the optimal control leverages a…

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This paper build on our recent work where we presented a dual stochastic optimal control formulation of the nonlinear filtering problem [1]. The constraint for the dual problem is a backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Jin Won Kim , Prashant G. Mehta

We consider the control of semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) via deterministic controls. In the case of multiplicative noise, existence of optimal controls and necessary conditions for optimality are derived. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Wilhelm Stannat , Lukas Wessels

Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) approaches rely on discrete-time state transition models whereas physical systems and the vast majority of control tasks operate in continuous-time. To avoid time-discretization approximation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Çağatay Yıldız , Markus Heinonen , Harri Lähdesmäki

We study the problem of mean-field control when the state dynamics are given by general systems of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) with heterogeneous mean-field interactions. Firstly, we introduce a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Andreas Sojmark , Zeng Zhang

We demonstrate that backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE) may be reformulated as ordinary functional differential equations on certain path spaces. In this framework, neither It\^{o}'s integrals nor martingale representation…

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We use Machine Learning (ML) and system identification validation approaches to estimate neural network models of large-scale Deformable Mirrors (DMs) used in Adaptive Optics (AO) systems. To obtain the training, validation, and test data…

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Reconstructing PDE solutions from sparse observations is a core challenge in scientific computing. We present FM4PDE, a flow-matching generative framework that learns the joint distribution of PDE coefficients (or initial states) and…

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In this introductory paper, we discuss how quantitative finance problems under some common risk factor dynamics for some common instruments and approaches can be formulated as time-continuous or time-discrete forward-backward stochastic…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-11-29 Bernhard Hientzsch

In this work, we study the numerical approximation of a class of singular fully coupled forward backward stochastic differential equations. These equations have a degenerate forward component and non-smooth terminal condition. They are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Jean-François Chassagneux , Mohan Yang

This paper investigates first the existence and uniqueness of solutions for McKean-Vlasov forward-backward doubly stochastic differential equations (MV-FBDSDEs) in infinite-dimensional real separable Hilbert spaces. These equations combine…

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Machine learning (ML) models trained by differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) have much lower utility than the non-private ones. To mitigate this degradation, we propose a DP Laplacian smoothing SGD (DP-LSSGD) to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Bao Wang , Quanquan Gu , March Boedihardjo , Farzin Barekat , Stanley J. Osher

Deep learning (DL) is a numerical method that approximates functions. Recently, its use has become attractive for the simulation and inversion of multiple problems in computational mechanics, including the inversion of borehole logging…

There is a growing literature adopting a stochastic optimal control (SOC) perspective to fine-tune diffusion models and related generative policies. A prominent class of methods, known as iterative diffusion optimization, solves the SOC…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Yuhang Mei , Amirhossein Taghvaei

In the present paper the problem of approximating the solution of BSDE is considered in the case where the solution of forward equation is observed in the presence of small Gaussian noise. We suppose that the volatility of the forward…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Oleg V. Chernoyarov , Yury A. Kutoyants

This paper examines the stochastic maximum principle (SMP) for a forward-backward stochastic control system where the backward state equation is characterized by the backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with quadratic growth and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Shaolin Ji , Rundong Xu

We consider a stochastic control problem for a class of nonlinear kernels. More precisely, our problem of interest consists in the optimisation, over a set of possibly non-dominated probability measures, of solutions of backward stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-28 Dylan Possamaï , Xiaolu Tan , Chao Zhou

Bayesian flow networks (BFNs) iteratively refine the parameters, instead of the samples in diffusion models (DMs), of distributions at various noise levels through Bayesian inference. Owing to its differentiable nature, BFNs are promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Kaiwen Xue , Yuhao Zhou , Shen Nie , Xu Min , Xiaolu Zhang , Jun Zhou , Chongxuan Li

Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs) have been widely employed in various areas of social and natural sciences, such as the pricing and hedging of financial derivatives, stochastic optimal control problems, optimal stopping…

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